The arguably best WC qualifying group in history

1982 World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2

             w d l goals pt      att

Belgium      5 1 2 12-9  11   41.703

France       5 0 3 20-8  10   45.195

Ireland      4 2 2 17-11 10   34.914

Netherlands  4 1 3 11-7   9   43.243

Cyprus       0 0 8  4-29  0    7.450

5 goals:

Erwin Vandenbergh (Bel), Michel Platini (Fra) 

4 goals:

Jan Ceulemans (Bel)

3 goals:

Gerry Daly, Michael Robinson, Frank Stapleton (Irl), Bernard Lacombe, Didier Six (Fra) 

2 goals:

Jean-François Larios, Gerard Soler, Jacques Zimako (Fra), Tony Grealish, Mark Lawrenson, Paul McGee (Irl), Arnold Mühren, Kees van Kooten (Ned) 

Today 44 years ago: Inter-Roma 2-4

 0-1 2' og Graziano Bini, 0-2 12' Roberto Pruzzo, 0-3 32' Pruzzo, 1-3 57' Alessandro Altobelli PK, 1-4 80' Pruzzo, 2-4 89'  Altobelli. Att: 56.357.

Inter: Ivano Bordon 5,5 - Roberto Mozzini 4,5 (66' Claudio Ambu), Nazzareno Canuti 5, Graziano Bini 5,5, Giancarlo Pasinato 5,5, Evaristo Beccalossi 4, Domenico Caso 5,5, Giampiero Marini 6 (46' Franco Pancheri 6), Herbert Prohaska 5,5, Carlo Muraro 5, Alessandro Altobelli 6,5. - coach: Eugenio Bersellini 5. = average: 5,38 [lame]

Roma: Franco Tancredi 6 - Vincenzo Romano 7, Maurizio Turone 6, Agostino di Bartolomei 7, Luciano Spinosi 6,5, Roberto Scarnecchia 6,5, Domenico Maggiora 6,5, Bruno Conti 6 (66' Michele De Nadai 6), Carlo Ancelotti 7, Falcão 7, Roberto Pruzzo 7,5. - coach: Nils Liedholm 7,5. = average: 6,58 [very good]

Top rated First Division players 1980/81

7,16 Frans Thijssen (Ipswich, left)
7,09 Osvaldo Ardiles (Tottenham)
7,08 Alan Evans (Aston Villa)
7,05 Arnold Mühren (Ipswich, right)
7,04 Jimmy Rimmer, Dennis Mortimer (Aston Villa), Mick Channon (Southampton)
7,03 Mark Wallington (Leicester), Tommy Hutchison (Man City), Graeme Souness (Liverpool)
7,01 Gerald Gow (Man City)
7,00 Jeffrey Wealands (Birmingham), Russel Osman, Alan Brazil (Ipswich), Steve Hunt (Coventry), Brian Horton (Brighton)

Average ratings Liverpool 1980/81

6,66 Kenny Dalglish

6,51 Graeme Souness

6,48 Alan Kennedy

6,47 Ray Kennedy

6,37 Ray Clemence

6,36 Phil Thompson

6,35 Terry McDermott

6,29 Alan Hansen, Sammy Lee

6,27 Phil Neal

6,14 Avi Cohen

6,02 Richard Money

5,96 David Johnson

5,95 Jimmy Case, Steve Heighway

5,93 Colin Irwin

5,72 Ian Rush

Le pagelle Guerin Sportivo: gli stranieri della Serie A 1986/87 e 1987/88

 

Top rated Bundesliga players 1979/80

 

8,13 Paul Breitner (Bayern Munich)
8,00 Hans-Peter Briegel (Kaiserslautern)
7,89 Norbert Nigbur (Schalke 04)
7,88 Toni Schumacher (Köln)
7,81 Bernd Franke (Braunschweig)
7,76 Franz-Josef Tenhagen (Bochum)
7,75 Manfred Kaltz (Hamburger SV)
7,74 Karlheinz Förster (Stuttgart)
7,73 Ronnie Hellström (Kaiserslautern)
7,69 Klaus Fichtel (Schalke 04)
7,68 Helmut Roleder (Stuttgart), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (Bayern Munich)
7,67 Bernard Dietz (MSV Duisburg)
7,65 Tony Woodcock (Köln)
7,64 Gerhard Heinze (MSV Duisburg), Hans-Josef Kapellmann (1860 Munich)
7,62 Hans-Günter Neues (Kaiserslautern)
7,61 Rudi Kargus (Hamburger SV)
7,60 Thomas Zander (1860 Munich)
7,58 Kevin Keegan (Hamburger SV), Jürgen Groh (Kaiserslautern), Wolfgang Kleff (Hertha BSC)

 

Ticket prices in 1980/81

Greece ratings in the Euro 1980

 

Ratings: Guerin Sportivo.

7,00 Christos Ardizoglou
6,75 Anthimos Kapsis, Nikos Anastopoulos
6,50 Spiros Livathinos  
6,25 Giorgos Foiros, Charalambos Xanthopoulos
6,17 Thomás Mavros
6,00 Ioannis Kyrastas, Konstantinos Iosifidis
5,75 Christos Terzanidis, Maïk Galakos
5,67 Dinos Kouis  
5,00 Vasilis Konstantinou

England ratings in the Euro 1980

7,06 Ray Wilkins
6,75 Kenny Sansom
6,25 Steve Coppell
6,22 Dave Watson, Kevin Keegan
6,17 Ray Clemence, Trevor Brooking
6,11 Phil Thompson
5,83 Tony Woodcock
5,75 Phil Neal 

Ratings: Guerin Sportivo - El Mundo Deportivo.

Spain ratings in the Euro 1980

 Ratings: Guerin Sportivo - El Mundo Deportivo - France Football.

6,70 Arconada
6,55 Jesús Zamora, Tendillo, Satrústegui
6,33 Saura
6,30 Migueli
6,17 Quini
6,10 Asensi
6,09 Juanito
6,03 Gordillo, Alexanko 

One rated match: Del Bosque 6,33, Cundi 6,17, Dani, Uria & Olmo 6,00, Santillana 5,67, Cardeñosa 5,33.

Serie A: top rated players 1980/81

 

6,92 Ruud Krol (Napoli), Salvatore Di Somma (Avellino)
6,81 Falcão (Roma)
6,74 Franco Colomba (Bologna)
6,67 Herbert Neumann (Udinese), Agostino Di Bartolomei (Roma)
6,65 Luciano Castellini (Napoli)
6,63 Antonio Cabrini (Juventus)
6,58 Marco Tardelli (Juventus)
6,57 Gaetano Scirea (Juventus) 

Ratings: Gazzetta dello Sport, Corriere dello Sport-Stadio, Guerin Sportivo & Tuttosport.

Ipswich Town ratings 1980/81

League and UEFA Cup. Ratings: Match Weekly.

7,29 Frans Thijssen
7,24 Russell Osman
7,20 Terry Butcher
7,13 Arnold Mühren
7,07 Alan Brazil
7,06 John Wark
7,00 Paul Cooper
6,93 Paul Mariner
6,87 Mick Mills
6,82 Eric Gates
6,80 George Burley
6,62 Steve McCall
6,00 Kevin O'Callaghan     

1979/80 half term report Second Division

Ratings: Match Weekly.

7,47 Brooking (West Ham)
7,40 Todd (Birmingham), Devonshire (West Ham)
7,38 Hibbitt (Newcastle)
7,37 Chiedozie (Orient)
7,30 Buckley (Sunderland), Rostron (Watford)
7,27 Cassidy (Newcastle)
7,25 Coates (Orient), Gemmill (Birmingham)
7,22 Lineker (Leicester)

Greece: average ratings in the Euro 1980

Ratings: Guerin Sportivo.

7,00 Christos Ardizoglou
6,75 Anthimos Kapsis, Nikos Anastopoulos
6,50 Spiros Livathinos  
6,25 Giorgos Foiros, Charalambos Xanthopoulos
6,17 Thomás Mavros
6,00 Ioannis Kyrastas, Konstantinos Iosifidis
5,75 Christos Terzanidis, Maïk Galakos
5,67 Dinos Kouis  
5,00 Vasilis Konstantinou

Czechoslovakia: average ratings in the Euro 1980

Ratings: Guerin Sportivo.

6,88 Antonín Panenka
6,67 Marián Masný
6,38 Ladislav Vízek
6,25 Anton Ondruš, Koloman Gögh
6,17 Jaroslav Netolička
6,12 Ladislav Jurkemik, Ján Kozák, Zdeněk Nehoda
6,00 Jozef Barmoš, Rostislav Vojáček

West Germany: average ratings in the Euro 1980

Ratings: France Football - Guerin Sportivo.

7,70 Bernd Schuster*
6,61 Hans-Peter Briegel
6,57 Horst Hrubesch
6,55 Uli Stielike
6,30 Manfred Kaltz, Bernard Dietz, Hansi Müller
6,24 Harald Schumacher
6,05 Karlheinz Förster, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
5,88 Klaus Allofs
5,52 Bernd Cullmann 

*) only two rated appearances.

 

Memory Lane: IFK Göteborg 1980.

2,80 Conny Karlsson
2,79 Torbjörn Nilsson
2,73 Tord Holmgren
2,68 Glenn Holm
2,65 Glenn Strömberg
2,60 Glenn Hysén
2,56 Ruben Svensson
2,44 Jerry Carlsson
2,33 Tommy Holmgren
2,23 Torstein Olafsson
2,11 Reine Olausson
2,05 Dan Corneliusson
2,00 Joakim Wendt

Memory Lane: Bundesliga 1979/80.

8,13 Breitner (Bayern Munich)
8,00 Briegel (Kaiserslautern)
7,89 Nigbur (Schalke 04)
7,88 H. Schumacher (Köln)
7,81 Franke (Braunschweig)
7,76 Tenhagen (Bochum)
7,75 Kaltz (Hamburger SV)
7,74 Kh. Förster (Stuttgart)
7,73 Hellström (Kaiserslautern)
7,69 Fichtel (Schalke 04)
7,68 Roleder (Stuttgart), Kh. Rummenigge (Bayern Munich)
7,67 Dietz (MSV Duisburg)
7,65 Woodcock (Köln)
7,64 G. Heinze (MSV Duisburg),     Kapellmann (1860 Munich)
7,62 Neues (Kaiserslautern)
7,61 Kargus (Hamburger SV)
7,60 Zander (1860 Munich)
7,58 Keegan (Hamburger SV), Groh (Kaiserslautern), Kleff (Hertha BSC)
7,57 Kliemann (Hertha BSC)
7,56 Rüssmann (Schalke 04)
7,55 Junghans (Bayern Munich), Cha (Eintracht Frankfurt)
7,53 Woelk (Bochum)
7,52 Grabowski (Eintracht Frankfurt), Melzer (Kaiserslautern)
7,50 B. Förster (Stuttgart), Jakobs (Hamburger SV)

Memory Lane: European goalscorers in the 1982 World Cup.

Including qualifiers.

14: Kh. Rummenigge (West Germany)
9: Fischer (West Germany)
7: Platini (France), Zlatko Vujović (Yugoslavia)
6: Vandenbergh (Belgium), Blokhin (Soviet Union), L. Kiss (Hungary), Smolarek (Poland), Arnesen (Denmark), Rossi (Italy)
5: Schachner (Austria), Kaltz & Littbarski (West Germany), Shengelia (Soviet Union), Fazekas & Nyilasi (Hungary), G. Armstrong (Northern Ireland), Boniek (Poland), Kouis (Greece)
4: Slavkov (Bulgaria), Krankl & Welzl (Austria), Ceulemans (Belgium), Mariner (England), J. Robertson (Scotland), Graziani (Italy)
3: Breitner (West Germany), Daley, Robinson & Stapleton (Ireland), Giresse, Soler, Rocheteau & Genghini (France), Gavrilov, Andreyev & Oganesian (Soviet Union), Walsh (Wales), Nehoda, Kozák & Panenka (Czechoslovakia), McDermott & Robson (England), Sulser (Switzerland), Wark (Scotland), Jordão (Portugal), B. Hamilton (Northern Ireland), Tabak (Israel), Streich (GDR), V. Petrović & Halilhodžić (Yugoslavia), Elkjær (Denmark), Conti (Italy)

Memory Lane: topscorers 1980-81 World Cup qualifiers Europe.

9: Kh. Rummenigge (West Germany)
7: Fischer (West Germany), Zlatko Vujović (Yugoslavia) 
6: Arnesen (Denmark)
5: Kaltz (West Germany), Platini (France), Vandenbergh (Belgium), Blokhin (Soviet Union), Smolarek (Poland), Kouis (Greece)
4: Slavkov (Bulgaria), Welzl (Austria), Ceulemans (Belgium), Shengelia (Soviet Union)
3: Schachner & Krankl (Austria), Littbarski (West Germany), Daley, Robinson & Stapleton (Ireland), Lacombe & Six (France), Andreyev (Soviet Union), Walsh (Wales), Nehoda & Kozák (Czechoslovakia), McDermott & Mariner (England), Fazekas & L. Kiss (Hungary), Sulser (Switzerland), J. Robertson (Scotland), Jordão (Portugal), Tabak (Israel), Streich (GDR), Halilhodžić (Yugoslavia), Elkjær (Denmark), Graziani (Italy)
2: Kostadinov (Bulgaria), Jara & Prohaska (Austria), Schuster & Breitner (West Germany), Lawrenson & Grealish (Ireland), A. Mühren & Van Kooten (Holland), Larios, Zimako & Soler (France), Sigurvinsson (Iceland), Gavrilov & Oganesian (Soviet Union), Giles, Flynn & L. James (Wales), Janecka & Vízek (Czechoslovakia), Woodcock & Brooking (England), Iordanescu (Romania), Hareide & Thoresen (Norway), Nyilasi & Balint (Hungary), Barberis (Switzerland), Humberto Coelho & Manuel Fernandes (Portugal), G. Armstrong (Northern Ireland), Damti (Israel), Schnuphase (GDR), Petrovic, Pantelic & Šurjak (Yugoslavia), Collovati, Bettega & Conti (Italy), Kostikos & Mavros (Greece)

In bold text: players scoring at least three goals in the 1982 World Cup.